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 Gaselyne rated 26 months ago-
"An Israeli bomb attack four weeks ago on the Lebanese Jiyeh electric plant has polluted some 140 kilometers (87 miles) of the Lebanese coast, spread north into Syrian waters and has the potential to reach the coasts of Cyprus and Turkey, according to the United Nations Environment Program....
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- adamahill rated 26 months ago
- This topic is frustratingly undercovered. "The European Union has agreed to coordinate efforts to contain a massive oil spill off the coast of Lebanon in an effort to prevent an environmental disaster in the Mediterranean Ocean." Thanks to culverin2 for the link.
- culverin2 rated 26 months ago
- ooh. and israel is nice enough to let us evaluate their mess so we can clean it up: "Israel agreed to allow international experts and cleanup crews access..."
"An Israeli bomb attack four weeks ago on the Lebanese Jiyeh electric plant has polluted some 140 kilometers (87 miles) of the Lebanese coast, spread north into Syrian waters and has the potential to reach the coasts of Cyprus and Turkey, according to the United Nations Environment Program."
- coyturtle rated 26 months ago
- So the EU moves when Turkey and Cyprus are in danger of getting their "European" beaches polluted!
The European Union has agreed to coordinate efforts to contain a massive oil spill off the coast of Lebanon in an effort to prevent an environmental disaster in the Mediterranean Ocean [sic].
- Gaselyne rated 26 months ago
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"An Israeli bomb attack four weeks ago on the Lebanese Jiyeh electric plant has polluted some 140 kilometers (87 miles) of the Lebanese coast, spread north into Syrian waters and has the potential to reach the coasts of Cyprus and Turkey, according to the United Nations Environment Program. If all the heavy fuel from the damaged facility's storage tanks located some 50 km south of Beirut were to seep into the sea, officials said, the environmental fallout could rival the Exxon Valdez spill when 37,000 tons of oil devastated Alaska's Prince William Sound."
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